[Democrat VA Governor Mark]Warner has successfully lobbied state GOP standard-bearers to endorse his goals, giving political cover to Republicans who might want to vote for tax increases. And on the stump, he frequently calls his proposals “moderate” in comparison to the Senate plan authored by Republican Sen. John H. Chichester.
‘Heck,’ Warner told an audience of about 100 at the Pittsylvania County Courthouse last week, ‘we’ve got the Republican Senate now. I’m the conservative alternative!’”
Thanks, Virginia Republicans. By pushing a $3.7 billion tax increase—higher than the $2 billion proposed by Mark Warner—you’ve made yourself the poster child for Democrats who are trying to paint the GOP as the party you can’t trust on fiscal issues. US Senate Democrats are pointing to Virginia and saying “See, they don’t believe in the Bush tax cuts, either!”
Someone remind me again what, exactly, is the party platform of the Republican Party? I know it’s called “The Stupid Party” but I was hoping that was just a nasty nickname.
“Two judges delayed taking any action Tuesday to shut down San Francisco’s same-sex wedding spree, citing court procedures as they temporarily rebuffed conservative groups enraged that the city’s liberal politicians had already married almost 2,400 gay and lesbian couples.
The second judge told the plaintiffs that they would likely succeed on the merits eventually, but that for now, he couldn’t accept their proposed court order because of a punctuation error.
It all came down to a semicolon, the judge said. […]
“The way you’ve written this it has a semicolon where it should have the word ‘or’,” the judge told them. “I don’t have the authority to issue it under these circumstances.”
Yes, it would clearly be a worse crime to allow that invalid semi-colon in a legal document than flagrantly issuing illegal marriage licenses.
I was going to comment on the stupidity of this UN supported plan to solve the nuclear proliferation issue by … wait for it … outlawing nuclear weapons. That’s it. That’s the plan. No where is there any mention of enforcement. Apparently once you have the law, it’s over. Problem solved.
Via Winds of Change we have a well done ripping on the concept that the UN, having failed to enforce previous nuclear weapons bans and its bans on aggression and genocide, would suddenly (magically) be able to enforce a brand new ban. But hey, when you’re a logo-realist words are all that matter.